logabe,
Case closed? ... No, the Judge has not slammed down the gavel quite yet.
Haven't studied the Greek, but your Romans 5:12 is interesting.
Care to comment on this?
David explains why all humans are sinners … their inherited sin nature
“Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.” (Psalm 51:5)
“The wicked (sons of men, verse 1) are estranged from the womb;
they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.” (Psalm 58:3)
David tells of the disasterous consequences
“The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men … They have all turned aside,
they have all become corrupt; there is none who does good, no, not one.” (Psalm 14:2-3)
“God looks down from heaven upon the children of men … Every one of them has turned aside;
they have all become corrupt; there is none who does good, no, not one.” (Psalm 53:2-3)
“… for in Your sight no one living is righteous.” (Psalm 143:2)
David was a man after God’s own heart
“The LORD has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the LORD
has commanded him (David) to be commander over His people …” (1 Samuel 13:14)
Paul paraphrases Samuel: “I (God) have found David, the son of Jesse,
a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.” (Acts 13:22)
But, David proved to be a sinner like everyone else, being an adulterer and a murderer.
Solomon was the wisest and most influential king in Israel’s history
“When they sin against You (for there is no one who does not sin) …” (1 Kings 8:46)
“When they sin against You (for there is no one who does not sin) …” (2 Chronicles 6:36)
“Who can say, ‘I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin’?” (Proverbs 20:9)
“For there is not a just man on earth who does good and does not sin.” (Ecclesiastes 7:20)
Job was blameless and upright
This means he shunned evil and sin, but when he did slip, he immediately
and sincerely repented … which is the absolute best any human can do.
“Man who is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. …
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!” (Job 14:1-4)
All humans have the sin nature, so how could any offspring not have the sin nature?
This “man who is born of woman” theme is repeated in Job 15:14-16 and Job 25:4.
Isaiah addresses Israel
“For I knew that you (Israel) … were called a transgressor from the womb.” (Isaiah 48:8)
“For we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses
are like filthy rags (women’s menstral cloths)” (Isaiah 64:6)
All of the Israelites were born sinners … and everyone else is also.
Why didn’t Moses seem to have this revelation?
God gave Moses the all-important Ten Commandments at a critical time.
It was very understandable and necessary that Moses was not told about man’s hopeless
sin nature, and that it was totally impossible for the Israelites to follow God’s Law.
Moses had to be in the most positive, encouraging, and demanding mode possible
to give the Israelites the maximum chance to succeed at following God’s Law.
Yes, God gave them every opportunity to succeed, but they failed miserably.
The main reason for God giving the Law
God gave the Law to prove that it is totally impossible for man to please Him.
So, everyone is a sinner, and no one is acceptable to be with God for all of eternity.
Man needed God to intervene somehow, if anyone was to have any chance of Heaven.
Jews, Christians, Muslims … How can you not believe in original sin?
Muslims … how can you believe God's prophets were sinless?
Jesus said His 12 disciples were evil
“If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children …” (Luke 11:13)
Do you think Jesus purposely chose evil men to be His disciples?
No, of course not … He is simply saying that all men are evil.
Jesus understood man’s disasterous spiritual condition
“Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His
name when they saw the signs which He did. But Jesus did not commit Himself to them,
because He knew all men, and had no need that anyone should tell Him about man,
for He knew what was in man.” (John 2:23-25)
Jesus explains: “I am He who searches the minds and hearts.” (Revelation 2:23)
“Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries,
fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.” (Matthew 15:19)
John 2 above occurred months before the Holy Spirit took Jesus’ place (John 14:16-26).
Paul (Jewish scholar) just repeated what his Old Covenant Scriptures say
“As it is written: ‘There is none righteous, no, not one … there is none who does good,
no, not one.’ ”[sup] [/sup](Romans 3:10-12). Paul is quoting here from Psalm 53:2-3.
“The Scripture has confined all under sin …” (Galatians 3:22)
“… through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin,
and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned …” (Romans 5:12)
“… through one man’s offense judgment came to all men,
resulting in condemnation … in Adam all die …” (1 Corinthians 15:18, 22)
“And you (believer) He made alive, who were (spiritually) dead in trespasses and sins
… (we previously) were by nature children of (God’s) wrath,
just as the others (everyone else).” (Ephesians 2:1-3)
“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
… If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him (God) a liar …” (1 John 1:8-10)
